What 醾 means
Its meaning comes from the compound around 醾.
酴醾 names a re-brewed wine; a traditional gloss also describes a wheat brew drunk without straining out the lees—the sediment left by fermentation. By itself, 醾 does not tell you which sense is meant.
In classical writing, 酴醾 also names a flower. One account connects the flower to the wine through a resemblance in color; another says its fragrance was used to infuse wine.
How did a wine term become a flower name?
The recorded trail goes from wine to flower.
The earliest cited mention is a Tang court record, preserved in later quotations, describing 酴醾酒 served to officials. The record places the wine in court use but does not explain how the term began. 醾 is not recorded in Shuowen, an early Chinese dictionary.
By Song-era poetry, 酴醾 was also a flower subject. Later references connect the flower with the wine through color resemblance; another tradition says the flower's fragrance flavored wine. 荼蘼 is another flower name associated with this history, not a glyph variant of 醾.
A literary character found in older Chinese vocabulary, especially the terms around 酴醾.
Sent alone, it lacks enough context to tell the wine term from the flower name; ask what the sender meant.
Who writes 醾
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsWithout surrounding text, 醾 does not distinguish the wine-term sense from the flower-name sense.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 醾 show as a box?
Usually a display issue. Font support varies across computers, phones, and browsers; a box or fallback shape means the viewer cannot render this glyph.
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How to type or find 醾
- Also called
- 酴醾 · 酴醿 · 酴釄
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- 醾 meaning · 酴醾酒 · 酴醾花 · wine term · flower name · type 醾
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